Suspect spits at police after arrest

STOCKTON - Police responding to a disturbance call shortly after midnight Thursday arrested a man who spat at an officer and made threats toward the officer and his family, authorities said.

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STOCKTON - Police responding to a disturbance call shortly after midnight Thursday arrested a man who spat at an officer and made threats toward the officer and his family, authorities said.

Officers determined that Joseph Torres, 24, had vandalized a car and stolen a stereo out of another vehicle, police said. As he was being taken to jail, the man spat at the officer and made threats against him.

Torres was arrested on suspicion of vandalism, auto burglary, possession of stolen property, battery on an officer, threatening an officer and public intoxication, police said.